Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-18

Part One - Medicine Constructs the “Neurological Patient”

pp 19-20

1 - The Patient's Pitch: The Neurologist, the Tuning Fork, and Textbook Knowledge

pp 21-43

2 - Neurological Patients as Experimental Subjects: Epilepsy Studies in the United States

pp 44-60

Part Two - Public and Private Constructions of the “Neurological Patient”

pp 61-62

3 - Speaking for Yourself: The Medico-Legal Aspects of Aphasia in Nineteenth-Century Britain

pp 63-80

4 - The Spouse, the Neurological Patient, and Doctors

pp 81-106

Part Three - Patient Groups Construct the “Neurological Patient”

pp 107-108

5 - Disappearing in Plain Sight: Public Roles of People with Dementia in the Meaning and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease

pp 109-128

6 - The Cursing Patient: Neuropsychiatry Confronts Tourette's Syndrome, 1825–2008

pp 129-164

Part Four - The Patient Constructs the “Neurological Patient”

pp 165-166

7 - The Psychasthenic Poet: Robert Nichols and His Neurologists

pp 167-183

8 - The Encephalitis Lethargica Patient as a Window on the Soul

pp 184-212

Part Five - Historians Construct the “Neurological Patient”

pp 213-214

9 - Neuropatients in Historyland

pp 215-222

10 - The Neurological Patient in History: A Commentary

pp 223-230

Bibliography

pp 231-252

List of Contributors

pp 253-256

Index

pp 257-264